Blowpipe head



June 1, 1948. w. J. JACOBSSON BLOWPIPE HEAD Filed March 2, 1940 lNVEl NTOR WILGOT ,J. JACQBSSON ATTORNEY Patented June 1, 1948 BLOWPIPE HEAD Wilgot J. Jacobsson, Plainfield, N. J., assignor to The Linde Air tion of Ohio Prbducts Company, a corpora- Application March 2, 1940, Serial No. 321,817

This invention relates to blowpipes and particularly to improved blowpipe heads and a method of making the same.

In blowpipes, the efilciency of the flame or of the cutting-oxygen jet is lowered by turbulence and the resulting friction in the gas stream and the efiect .of turbulence is especially noticeable in the oxidizing gas streams of cutting, deseaming, and similar blowpipes. Manually manipulated cutting and deseaming blowpipes are provided with a nozzle-retaining head having gas passages which usually abruptly change the direction of gas flow and, in the past, it has been ;customary to manufacture economically such a blowpipe head from a single piece of copper, bronze, or other corrosion-resistant" metal, and to form therethrough a gas passage or passages by drilling from opposite ends of the head. At the intersection of these drillings, the walls of the gas passage are not smooth and continuous and thegas passage makes an abrupt angle turn, all of which causes turbulence and friction in the gas stream anda drop in its cutting efiiciency.

"I' have found that when theoxy en supply passage immediately ahead of and leading directly to the inlet end of the oxygen passage through the nozzle is provided with a smooth sweeping curve ending in axial alignment with the entrance of the axial passage through the nozzle, an unexpected and material increase in metal removing efficiency is obtained when all the other factors affecting the efiiciency are maintained thesame. {Tests have shown that a material increase of efficiency is obtained by substituting a smoothly curved oxy en supply passage for the ,Qustomary drilled and angular oxygen passage in a blowpipe head or .other similar body which usually is coupledto the deseaming nozzle to supplycutting-oxygen thereto. For example, itihas beenfound that under certain conditions a handdeseaming blowpipe having the, customary intersecting drilled passages in the blowpipe head requires 3.1 .cubic feet of oxygen to remove one pound of metal from the surface of a ferrous body, whereas by using a heaclhaving a smoothly curved passage instead of one having the usual intersecting drilled passages, only 2.4 cubic -feet of oxygen isrequired to remove a pound of metal. The oxygenv pressure, the, preheating. gas pressure, the sizeof the passages and the anglethrough whic-hythe direction ofgas flow was 'changed all remainedconstantfor these tests.

Accordingly, an object ofthis invention isto providea more efficient blowpipe including a blowpipe head having a ,gas passage formed therethrough with smooth, continuous walls ,and without an abrupt angle turn so astoeliminate turbulenceinthe gas flowingthrough thispassage.

,Other, objects of this invention include the provision of a blowpipe head that is lightin we ht to reduce the elfort involved in manipulating the meas es; and the provision "or a mowpipene'ad that is essentially of a unitary construction and coo dmical item nnractur Acc0t i i pr, lnt invention} the blowpipehead for use in 6i de s eanlifig metal has a daiVity therein provided with a inlet portion and anoutlet'po'r- ,tion Hisposedat an angle to each other. Ihe inlet portioajqr this cavity is adapted to receive'cutting or deseaming oxygen" and the outlet portion is adapted to receive a'm'etal cutting :or' deseaming nozzle. A preformed tube ini'this cavity has'its ,eiids fitting said inlefand' outlet portions respectively andiextending thelihetween for conyeymg cutting or" deseaming oxygen to said nozzle. SaidTtjube has alsmooth and continuous inner surface Ian d is gradually curved for jchangmg the direction of -.th} putting or deseaming iesi geasttam flowing therethrough. Preferably the blowpipefhiead comprisesa layer of moldable material contacting the router curved surface of said tube, and the mo l'dab le material has anouter surface curved similarly to said passage in the .p b u t f -a m b .u i tm space ntmsampass'age. i

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The single ,figur e :is a longitudinal sectional view of a blowpipe head .and 'a deseaming nozzle coupled thereto, showing one embodiment of the invention.

-Th lfirmeiples of, thi n lin r :b mbodied Yin anycutting or desearning blowpipe headl" Referring moi e particularly tothe drawe h 'i l ii e o iain ent q rr hown-e being Lembodied in the 1 head of a conventional hanihoperated V .desaniing' blowpipe, such is disclosed in'United states 'Patent' No. 1,957,351 to SamuelR. Oldham, May l, 1 934. The head H is adapted tooperatively receive a, deseamingnozzle N, whichlisreniovably retained inthe head by a nut I. Algaspa'ssage -P is form'ed in-the head I-Ljand has smooth; continuous walls and is so cllKVl-ld that it fd'oe's I not abruptly change the direction of gas flowi- IIhe gas stream delivered torth'e inlettofthe nozzl'e'N is free from-turbulence andlthermocheniically,deseams the work surface at maximum efiiciency.

The inlet. end of passage-P is enla r edyat;- o receivelali-ehd educator. the blowpipe cuttin oxygen supplyitube (l4, which is secured thereto by silver I- solder or other suitable means. 'I lhe outletfend of passage 'P" is enlarged. to provide a socket. l5, toiioperatively receive the. inlet end of thejdeseaming nozzle N. Seating surfaces '1 6 and l 1'! ate provided in socket 'l'5lwh'ich .are engaged by corresponding; seats Ionithe 'rear end of the T engages the underside of a shoulder l8 onthe nozzle to retain the nozzle in the socket, and

to tightly press the seats on the nozzle against the surfaces l6 and I! to hermetically seal these joints.

The body also contains a combustible gas passage communicating with cavity 2! and adapted to receive the end of combustible gas conveying tube 22 which may be fastened therein by silver solder or other suitable means. Passage 2D has an outlet orifice discharging into a chamber 23 between the seating surfaces l6 and I1.

Passage 20 is shown as a straight passage which may be formed by drilling or other suitable means. This is an economical construction for it has been determined that it is not as necessary that the preheating gas passage 20 be formed with a smooth, continuous surface and without an abrupt angle turn, as the passage P is formed.

In IlOZZle N there are a plurality of combustible gas passages or preheating gas passages usually disposed substantially parallel to the central cutting oxygen passage or bore 26 for discharging preheating flames onto the work surface to raise it to the oxygen ignition temperature. The preheating gas passages 25 have inlet orifices 21 opening into the chamber 23. The seating surface l6 and the corresponding seat on the nozzle form a gas-tight seal to prevent cutting oxygen from escaping from passage P into chamber 23, and the seating surface I! and the corresponding nozzle seat form a gas-tight seal preventing the escape of combustible gas to the atmosphere.

The cutting oxygen is supplied to tube l4 through the usual control valve of the blowpipe (not shown) and flows from tube [4 through passage P and the central bore 26 of nozzle N to the outlet orifice 28. As shown, the longitudinal axis of the nozzle bore 26 is at approximately an angle of 10 degrees to the axis of the oxygen supply tube l4, and passage P is gradually curved and has a smooth, continuous wall so that, even though the direction of oxygen flow. is changed considerably, the turbulence, friction and loss of velocity of the flowing but confined gas stream are reduced to a minimum, whereby the oxygen jet issuing from the nozzle orifice efliciently reacts with the ferrous metal, i. e., a cubic foot of oxygen thermochemically removes a greater weight of ferrous metal in the form of a molten slag mixture.

The combustible gas mixture of oxygen and acetylene is supplied to tube 22 from an appro-- priate mixer in the blowpipe (not shown) and fiows from tube 22 through passage 20, distributing chamber 23 and the preheating gas passages 25 of nozzle N and against the work'to provide a flame of suflicient intensity to raise that portion of the surface against which the cutting oxygen impinges to the oxygen ignition temperature.

It is preferable that the radius of curvature for the portion of passage P immediately preceding the inlet orifice of the cutting oxygen bore 26 should be not less than one and one-half times the diameter of passage P. If the radius of curvature is increased, the turbulence will be decreased. The radius of curvature is taken as equal to the distance of the longitudinal axis of passage P from the imaginary center of the curve socket 15 for receiving the rear end of the nozzle, is tangent to the longitudinal axis of passage P at theinlet of the oxygen bore 26 of the nozzle.

. Furthermore, as shown in Figure 1', the diameter of the curved head passage H preferably is materiallygreater than the diameter of the nozzle passage 26.

The following table compares the amounts of oxygen consumed by hand-deseaming blowpipes constructed according to the present invention as compared. to a hand-deseaming blowpipe having the usual intersecting gas passages in the blowpipe head, the diameter of the oxidizing gas passage in the blowpipe head being .344 inch for all blowpipes and the angle through which the direction of gas flow is changed being '75 degrees in all Thus, by forming passage P with a radius of curvature one and one-half times the diameter of passage P, the oxygen consumed in removing one pound of metal is reduced to 2.9 cubic feet as compared to the 3.1 cubic feet of oxygen consumed when using a blowpipe head containing the usual, intersecting drilled passages. By increasing the radius of curvature of passage P to 1.95 times the diameter, the oxygen consumption is reduced to 2.4 cubic feet for each pound of metal removed.

Referring more particularly to the body [0, a preformed tube 35, which may be of suitable metal such as copper, is placed in the mold and the mold is then filled with molten bronze or other relatively machinable corrosion-resistant metal. The tube 35 may extend through and project beyond the rear of the body casting II), as shown by broken lines at 35. In the blowpipe head as thus formed, the space between the outer curved surface of the tube 35 is filled with a layer of moldable material comprising the metal of which the body It! is cast. Thus this layer of moldable material contacts the outer curved surface of the tube 35, and has an outer surface which is the outer surface of the body l0, and which is curved similarly to the passage in the tube 35 in the plane of curvature and thereby spaced from said passage.

The tube 35 has the proper diameter and preferably is gradually and smoothly curved, as shown, before being placed in the mold so that the resulting cutting oxygen passage 40 formed in the head by the tube will have smooth, continuous walls and is so curved that it will not abruptly change the direction of gas flow. The oxidizing gas flows from tube M through passage 40 to the oxygen bore 26 extending through nozzle N and the turbulence, friction and loss of velocity is reduced to a minimum.

While I have described and illustrated only the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions, additions,

and omissions may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth by the claims. Divisional subject matter originally disclosed in this application has been divided out and presented in my copending application Serial No. 748,033, filed May 14, 1947.

What is claimed is:

1. For use in a blow-pipe for cutting or deseaming ferrous metal, a blowpipe head having a cavity therein provided with an inlet portion and an outlet portion disposed at an angle to each other, said inlet portion being adapted to receive cutting or deseaming oxygen and said outlet portion being adapted to receive a meta1 cutting or deseaming nozzle, and a preformed tube in said cavity having its ends fitting said inlet and outlet portions respectively and extending therebetween for conveying cutting or deseaming oxygen to said nozzle, said tube having a smooth and continuous inner surface and being gradually curved for changing the direction of the cutting or deseaming oxygen stream flowing therethrough.

2. A blowpipe head as claimed in claim 1, comprising a layer of molda-ble material contacting the outer curved surface of said tube, said moldable material having an outer surface curved similarly to said passage in the plane of curvature and thereby uniformly spaced from said passage.

WILGOT J. JACOBSSON.

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